Recorded answers
11,507 recorded answers
How to approach it
The productive move is to switch from memory to reference work. Rather than free-associating famous cities, open a gazetteer or a cartographic service and scroll through the administrative registers of countries whose place names routinely absorb a definite article. Work region by region, and once you land somewhere promising, zoom in rather than out: the smaller the locality, the less likely the crowd has already claimed it. Keep the six permitted openings in view so you never waste a guess on a near miss beginning with a different particle. Where a name repeats across dozens of villages, expect duplication and little reward; where it appears once, submit it. Confirm the entry is a populated place and not a district, beach or landmark before committing.
Get a hint
Start with the naming traditions that fuse a definite article to a place name, then ask which parts of the world you have explored least rather than which you know best.
A little more
Value sits well below the famous tier: villages, hamlets, suburbs and rural clusters appear in detailed gazetteers but almost never in ordinary conversation.
One step further
Size decides everything, because a name borne by one tiny locality scores far better than one shared by a metropolis, so hunt obscure administrative lists instead of skylines.
Reveal answers 11,507
- La HuacanaDeep Cut85points
- La HuánicaDeep Cut85points
- La HuanièreDeep Cut85points
- La HuapillaDeep Cut85points
- La HuaycaDeep Cut85points
- La HuerceDeep Cut85points
- La HuertaDeep Cut85points
- La Huerta EchegarayDeep Cut85points
- La HuertitaDeep Cut85points
- La HuitlacochaDeep Cut85points
- La HuitznahuaDeep Cut85points
- La HuizacheraDeep Cut85points
- La HuleríaDeep Cut85points
- La HulpeDeep Cut85points
- La HumadaDeep Cut85points
- La HumedadDeep Cut85points
- La IberiaDeep Cut85points
- La IbéricaDeep Cut85points
- La IglesiaDeep Cut85points
- La Iglesuela del CidDeep Cut85points
- La Iglesuela del TiétarDeep Cut85points
- La IgualaDeep Cut85points
- La IguanaDeep Cut85points
- La IlusiónDeep Cut85points
- La ImperialDeep Cut85points
- La InaDeep Cut85points
- La InalambricaDeep Cut85points
- La IndependenciaDeep Cut85points
- La IndiaDeep Cut85points
- La IndioteriaDeep Cut85points
- La IndustriaDeep Cut85points
- La IndustrialDeep Cut85points
- La InmaculadaDeep Cut85points
- La Inmaculada ConcepciónDeep Cut85points
- La InsulaDeep Cut85points
- La InvernadaDeep Cut85points
- La IruelaDeep Cut85points
- La IsabelDeep Cut85points
- La IsabelaDeep Cut85points
- La IslaDeep Cut85points
- La Isla de ChapachapaDeep Cut85points
- La Isla de CubaDeep Cut85points
- La IsletaDeep Cut85points
- La IslitaDeep Cut85points
- La JabillaDeep Cut85points
- La JaboneraDeep Cut85points
- La JacaDeep Cut85points
- La JaguaDeep Cut85points
- La Jagua AbajoDeep Cut85points
- La Jagua de IbiricoDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The distribution is extraordinarily lopsided: of the 11,495 submissions that cleared the bar, 11,457 sat at 85 points, thirty-seven dropped to 60, and exactly one reached 100. That shape teaches more than any single guess. The 85-point mass runs from hamlets such as El Abra and El Achir to entries plenty of players would recognise by name, like El Aaiún, which suggests the scoring rewarded any verifiable, non-obvious place rather than punishing modest fame. The thirty-seven names at 60 were the near-automatic picks that almost everyone produced. The lone maximum, La Ciotat, shows what separates the very top: a coastal town solid enough to be real yet peripheral enough that the crowd skipped it. Aim for that 85 band deliberately and treat 100 as a bonus. A household name costs twenty-five points; a village that exists on a gazetteer costs only a minute of verification.